I've been facing ongoing issues related to domestic violence, and when I tried to open up to her…read moreabout my situation, she dismissed me by saying I'm not a "real victim." Instead of offering support, she gave me a 60-day notice to leave, even though I just got out of the hospital and have an active protective order against my abuser. She offered him my same apartment for him to move back in, while I move out. That is ILLEGAL to further victimize the victim as a form of punishment. She has connections to him and his family personally and is friends with his Mom. After standing up for myself and pointing out her inappropriate behavior, she called the police on me. Police didn't do SHIT BECAUSE I didn't do anything wrong. They even apologized to me, because my face was CLEARLY BEAT UP. I have all the pictures. It seems like she's on a power trip and may be struggling with her own insecurities because of her being overweight. I anticipate she might respond to this post with SOME BULLSHIT LIES, as she always does when someone calls her out. She also allowed my abuser to view video surveillance of me (when I had an active RTO) regarding who was coming in and out of my apartment, causing him to retaliate against me.

Worst apartment complex i've lived in. Got my car stolen twice while parked in the parking lot (in…read morethe complex). I have gotten my car tire slashed inside the parking lot (by a resident) and management didn't do anything about the situation. Water is always getting shut off, water heaters never work. Rats/Possums are always in the area (pest control or exterminator really need to be hired). Walls are paper thin. Washer/dryer units hardly work/ are never being fixed. I don't need to say much more.

The El Conquistador apartments are an excellent choice if you are going to be moving to El Cahon!!…read more Located jat 257 Jamacha Road - Just a couple of miles from the freeway, they are walking distance to restaurants and shopping. My daughter and her husband lived there for years and liked their unit and really liked the manager. Definitely check El Conquistador Apartments out!!

JJ the maintance guy- amazing, always helped me out and looked out for me. 5 stars for him…read more Jaime- no shame, will put you down. There are more ways to be tactful, professional and productive than treating people how she does. 0/5 stars. There are several open units for a reason. When Florence worked here, it was great. She treated people with grace, dignity and understanding even if she couldn't approve you or approve you. Someone else took over after that who was okay but constantly stressed it seemed and then Jaime came around. She's of no assistance, doesn't care - does the basics and must go home. No compassion for people at all. If you have a situation with a neighbor or animals pooping in your yard- no response. When prior office staff was there I would get acknowledgment of thank you letting me know or something or anything!! IF she gives you a response- don't expect a nice one. When I emailed prior landlords I would get it addressed instantly. When I was late on rent- I would say something and give a date of payment! Never evicted!! I communicated but just know that doesn't mean anything for them. I would over hear the endless complaints about how many apartments did not communicate with the office and I would question why but I get it. It's Jaime. It's her. I thought communication was appreciated to find out it's not so damned if you do or damned if you don't with them. I loved my apartment, I loved how close it was to everything, I loved maintance and how helpful they were, I felt safe with my kids. But all that takes a downfall when a staff member supersedes personal interactions with no compassions. I absolutely loved being in the area. B Just don't go here. Landlords are an important part of a renting experience.

Change the people in you front office. They are rude and disrespectful. Then the other guy has to…read moreput on a glove every time he sees someone. You could be handing him a your rent check and he puts on the glove...

This place is pretty bad. I'm glad to be moved out of here. The first manager when I moved in was…read morea.... well needless to say, they're under new management and they aren't as bad. When I first moved in, there was no gate, but now there is which can be kind of a good thing but also a pain in the ass if you're trying to order a pizza or have a party because you have to go all the way outside just to let each person in. They tell you that you get a "yard" which is the saddest excuse for a yard I've ever seen. You can't fit anything in it, and the only thing it would be useful for is a dog to go outside and poop in, but sadly they don't allow pets. They also don't allow smoking in the apartments or anywhere on the property. If they catch you doing it, they will threaten to kick you out. That's a downfall too because that's just about the only thing you would want to do outside on your 4x4 foot itty bitty patio where you aren't allowed to have a grill. Yes, the yard and the patio are the two most pointless parts about this complex. The parking is pretty much the worst situation imaginable. Most people don't even park in their garages, they just use it as another living room. The garages are ridiculously small. They claim to be 2-car garages, which is fine if you have two mini coopers. I'm not sure how they did the measurements here, but if you are lucky enough to fit your vehicles in the garage, you have to do an 8-point turn just to get it in there since the buildings are so close together. The saddest thing I've seen though is the people who signed their leases and have trucks and you see that they can't even close the garage at night because the front of the truck is sticking out of the garage. I just feel so sorry for them because they didn't know. They didn't know... The best part is that we scratched both my girl's car and my car trying to maneuver our cars into this ridiculous situation. Thousands of dollars of paint jobs are in our future. The inside isn't so bad. You get three bedrooms, and two bathrooms. The kitchen is kinda nice too, but everything else in here is so poorly done. The walls are thin and the paint is so cheap you can just rub something on it and it stains or comes right off. The door stoppers just fall out of the wall... ugh it was a nightmare. For $1400 a month we got what we paid for... The only reason I'm giving this place two stars is because of the liquor store that I could walk to across the street. That made it easy to not have to drive anywhere when I ran out of beer. Oh also, there is a washer/dryer and air conditioning. You might not want to use them though because somehow the meters here RIP YOU OFF and we had consecutive $300/month SDG&E bills. No, I am not exaggerating.

DO NOT MOVE INTO THIS COMPLEX! LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING, VERY DECEIVING!…read more Looks great right? Gated.. 2 car garages.. 3 bedrooms.. 2 baths.. updated kitchens.. new carpet.. fresh paint on the walls.. sounds nice right? WRONG! We paid 1400/mo. for CRAP! And the deposit was an entire months rent as well. Hmm.. well they did a good job of making sure they got to keep that money! First off.. The area is terrible. Weird people walk around there at night. And unfortunately if you have friends/family come over they have to park on the side of the road which unfortunately again is always full of cars because unfortunately the living rooms and hallways that go up to the living rooms are so narrow that you can't move in average size furniture so unfortunately people use their 2 car garages as the living room which by the way these garages are pretty ridiculously small and the driveway to the garages is so narrow it is even more ridiculous to try to park in there without doing a 10 point turn. Fact: Your 2 car garage just became your living room. Fact: You now park either in 1 of the 3 parking spots in the gated part of the complex (good luck finding one) or park on the street. Fact. Friends/family come over park way the hell down the road and walk in this sketchy part of town to your gate where they wait for you to open because it is locked. And if it is dark they could potentially be in danger and be frightened. Fact: Your friends/family will no longer want to come and visit. Second off.. they remodeled this place with freaking cardboard. The walls are super thin so UNFORTUNATELY I can even hear neighbors alarm clocks and figure out what they are watching on TV. A stalkers dream. The paint ON the walls chips off when the wind blows. It is ridiculous. Anything can mark this paint too. We got a couple black marks from moving our MINI japanese pleather couches up the stairs because that was the only thing that could fit. So I decided to use a rag with water to try to get rid of the damn marks. Well the paint washed right off. Fact: THE WALLS ARE THINNER THAN AN ANOREXIC CHICK! Fact: THE PAINT WASHES OFF WITH WATER! WTF?!? Third off and finally.. THE MANAGEMENT SUCKS MONKEY NUTS! They are rude, annoying, deceiving, conniving and overall screw you over big time assholes. Side note: Things you can not do in your complex: Smoke, not even out in front, not on your patio, not at all. Pets, not a fish, not a snail, nothing, zip, zilch. Wash clothes after 10PM, because the walls are so thin you cannot wash your own goddamn clothes in your own goddamn apartment. Fact: I would never move in here again I would rather be homeless.

Don't live here period. Some tenants here are a pos. Theres a super loud red mustang and a harley…read morebike. People will move your clothes themselves if you leave them in the laundry room. Dogs shit all over the place. Theres a dog here that keeps crying all fucking day while a owner is probably at work. The parking lot is not secured and I have a friend that her cat converter got stolen. Theres losers here hanging out the walkway all the time like this is some 8mile shit. They play football at the parking lot like its safe. Theres bums rummaging the trash everyday. Just like everywhere else, this is overpriced for what it is thanks to inflation. The driveway to get in and out is too tight and people not living here dropping package daily thinks you fit so they won't back up while you get stuck in traffic while you get honked at from behind on a fast going street. Should I say more? Go rent a room, save a downpayment and buy a house elsewhere cheaper. Save yourselves. This won't get any better.

I have lived here for almost a year now and absolutely love this complex! I've read some of the…read morereviews under here and feel like it's blown way out of proportion. I had done tons of research when I first started looking at apartments and I had 3 main must-haves: fair price, safe area, and cleanliness. Fountains Apartments has all of that. So my only guess for why there are some disgruntled opinions on here about this place may be due to unrealistic expectations/standards. If your checklist for choosing an apartment is similar to mine - this place, in my opinion, is the one to choose :) In addition to meeting my must-haves, the neighbors are incredibly friendly and willing to accommodate/communicate for everyone's best interest. It's a very family environment here with tenants that have lived here for 5+ years. I also absolutely love the property manager, Megan. She is constantly working on bettering the complex and building relationships with the tenants here. I have never had a property manager that puts so much heart into her work, and for myself, I feel a huge sense of security living in a place that has that. As far as cons to this place - I don't really have any. It's fairly priced, safe in a beautiful area, and clean :) I have never made the effort to review something before but because I'm just pretty shocked at all the harsh comments made about this complex, I feel like it's only fair to share how wonderful I think this place is. It truly feels like a place I can call home. Hope this helps anyone searching!

I wish I could include someone else's review in mine because she took the words out my mouth. The…read moreneighbors are indeed obnoxiously loud, inconsiderate and ghetto. My dogs are traumatized from how loud our apartment is from the maintenance guy slamming doors at 7 am and dragging heady metal patio furniture to people using the pool from sunrise to well after hours - it would be one thing to enjoy the pool as intended but they constantly drag the heavy furniture around, play with soccer balls and slamming the fence that divides our patio from the pool area, and people cannot stop screaming, including children, teenagers and the adults. They act like animals. It feels like rats are crawling on our walls because there is never a quiet moment. It's like these people are unemployed. The laundry rooms are always disgusting, and the machines are constantly down and if it's not that it's a group of teens that would go in and break the lines just for fun. It's not gated so people that don't even live here break into the pool and drop their garbage here (toilets/mattresses/stoves/etc) - leading to surcharges in our rent. People take your parking spot too and there parking on this street is horrendous between all the apartment complexes around there. The manager is a nice lady but has zero b$lls to take your concerns seriously and talk to the tenants about it. Kids have banged on our door just to be mischievous, our neighbor caught these women getting fully nude in front of our apartment, the sherifs are constantly here, the swat team has been here multiple times. People do not pick up after their dogs and leave their trash everywhere, they let their kids go around with scooters all day and it's one thing for kids to be kids and play but another is letting your child be a total nuisance in a shared space with zero adult supervision - they leave trash and rocks everywhere as well as mess with the landscaping. I can honestly say I have never had a single happy day living here. If you are this type of person that has zero consideration for others, don't want any rules, and want a "cheaper" rent and just let your kids do whatever they want this is the place for you. If you value your peace and are a kind neighbor and except the same treatment, please spend a few hundred more and find a different place.

I live here currently, and I would not recommend living here. Due to the economy and having to do…read moreeverything by myself, it was the least expensive apartment I found. Even though they just raised it with no reason other than it's been a year--- no upgrades. But what I also have come to find is, that all the neighbors are obnoxiously loud, inconsiderate and ghetto --especially near me, disrupting me day and night and I work from home. It seems like no one has a job here because I can hear them in my walls like rats all day and night. I live upstairs but the noises that come from my surrounding area feels and sounds like I live downstairs. Outside landscape is the most welcoming and kept up with, but we have to pay a pest control fee every month, yet the pests are not controlled. This place is roach infested and no matter how many times they've sprayed, there are still creepy crawlers to which I saw one come out of an outlet in the kitchen! They act like my complaints are irritating and unnecessary but if I'm going to be paying over $2000 a month, that is the bare minimum. Your rent also goes up significantly because utilities are included, but what you will learn is that you share meters/water heater so you have to pay for water and the heat for the water separately-- no matter how much water you're using. The smell of the pipes are so old and gross, it creeps into your house. I've spent so much money on air freshener to avoid vomiting. I'm hardly ever home and I'm still paying 70+ dollars for water every month, plus my own SDG&E bill for the electricity part. I contacted the property management company about this to ask, and they gave me the runaround and stopped replying when I didn't agree to a phone call. That's not suspicious at all. The property manager on the premise will just send you an addendum that doesn't explain much, and definitely none of these things explicitly. You also have to pay for the trash and that "fluctuates." As an individual currently, I'm paying $93 for trash because they split it/ release responsibility throughout the entire complex as they throw away toilets, fridges, closet doors and cement blocks. Seemingly they have trouble leasing these, due to all of these things aforementioned-- so whoever lives here is stuck paying whatever bill comes instead of the property management/owner. Meanwhile, because I'm rarely here, I barely use the dumpster while people are throwing away entire furniture collections every other week. The popcorn ceilings are so outdated and full of dust that my allergies are on 10 all the time and cleaning is more often than not because surfaces get dusty probably the next day after you've cleaned. It's actually really hard to keep up with. There's a pool, but I don't think anyone cleans it so the water is always murky and full of bugs and leaves. I guess it's all preparing me for homeownership. It's actually been a traumatizing year living here and I've only been physically here five months out of the year. So if all that is right up your alley, then you found your home.